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The Eyes of Tammy Faye

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United Kingdom, United States · 2000
Rated PG-13 · 1h 19m
Director Fenton Bailey, Randy Barbato
Starring RuPaul, Tammy Faye Bakker, Jim Bakker, Mel White
Genre Documentary, Drama

In the 1970s, Tammy Faye Bakker rises from humble beginnings to create the world's largest religious broadcasting network and theme park. The televangelist becomes legendary for her indelible eyelashes, her idiosyncratic singing, and her eagerness to embrace people from all walks of life. However, financial improprieties, scheming rivals, and a scandal threaten to topple her empire.

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San Francisco Chronicle by Edward Guthmann

Demonstrates, if nothing else, that there's a genuine person -- chastened by mistakes and more compassionate, perhaps, for all she's suffered -- beneath the war paint and the stardust.

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L.A. Weekly by Ernest Hardy

It's a testimony to the integrity and poignancy of Tammy Faye herself that she comes off as a cool, even complex, woman.

70

TV Guide Magazine by Maitland McDonagh

Whatever the complicated truth about PTL, Tammy Faye's homespun charisma is undeniable; if only the Lord would give her the strength to say, "Get thee behind me, false eyelashes!"

50

Austin Chronicle by Marjorie Baumgarten

By letting her babble on and become a somewhat risible figure, the filmmakers display a somewhat mean-spirited attitude, despite all their fuss about finally appreciating this put-upon survivor.

70

Time by Richard Schickel

Maybe this documentary is a bit too enthralled by her, but she emerges from it a game girl, a gay activist and a curiously sympathetic figure.

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